Seven mistakes and potential solutions in epidemiology, including a call for a World Council of Epidemiology and Causality

Emerging Themes in Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bhopal, Raj ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; BILE DUCT CANCER; BRONCHITIS; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA MINING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMPHYSEMA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE; HOMICIDE; INTERVENTION STUDY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOUTH TUMOR; PHARYNX TUMOR; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK; SCIENCE; TRACHEA TUMOR; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 73449100499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17427622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-7622-6-6     Document Type: Review

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